April 11th: ‘HMS Spartan’ and ‘HMS Splendid’ (submarines) arrived off of the Falkland Islands.

April 12th: Britain announced a 200-mile Exclusion Zone around the Falkland Islands. The destroyer ‘Antrim’, the frigate ‘Plymouth’ with M Company, 42 Commando, sailed from Ascension to recapture South Georgia.

April 14th: The South Georgia Task Force rendezvous with ‘Endurance’ already in the vicinity.

April 18th: Task Force sails from Ascension.

April 21st/22nd: men from the SAS are inserted and then extracted from South Georgia.

April 25th: Royal Marines and SAS retake South Georgia.

April 26th: formal surrender of Argentineans at South Georgia. 2 Para sailed from Hull on the ‘Norland’.

May 1st: Task Force entered the Exclusion Zone. Vulcan bomber ‘Black Buck’ attacked the runway at Port Stanley. First air attacks by Harriers on Argentinean positions on the Falklands. SAS and SBS landed on the islands.